Procurement Category Manager

A Leading Utilities Provider is looking for a Procurement Category Manager to support national construction projects.

The main objective of the role is to develop and deliver a national category management strategy for company and customer projects.

Key duties will include:

• Lead a portfolio of strategic and complex direct and indirect categories.
• Develop and implement procurement strategies across your portfolio of goods and services spend.
• Manage the full end to end category management process, negotiating both new and renewal contracts.
• Manage supplier relationships, while ensuring company commercial and governance policies are followed.
• Managing internal stakeholders, ensuring best practices are embedded across the company.
• Provide regular procurement reporting to the Head of Procurement and senior leadership.

Why Apply

In this newly created, greenfield role, where you will create a new category management strategies.

Part of a successful, growing company who has recently appointed a new Head of Procurement.

Helping to support the new Head of Procurement's functional change programme.

Further Details

Provide services under full turnkey contracts and framework agreements, with scope of services.

Likely to be managing 4-5 live projects at once, each with 4-5 contracts per project.

To service each project you will buy across a wide selection of categories: Design and professional services, IT / M&E equipment, installation and commissioning services.

Candidate Requirements

Ideal candidates will currently be working as a Category or Procurement Manager or as a Senior Buyer with many years experience and ready for career progression.

Candidates must have at least 5 years strategic procurement experience, managing projects or category strategies.

You will be working for a large complex company, from any industry, with a track record or delivering challenging internal stakeholder requirements.

Experience within the construction, FM or utilities sectors is desirable but not essential.

Benefits

• Home Working
• Bonus
• Salary Sacrifice Car Scheme
• Healthcare
• Pension